Ezafe in Genç Zazaki
A concise guide to ezafe in Genç Zazaki, organized by masculine, feminine, and plural head nouns, with AP and NP dependent patterns.
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Copula Endings in Genç Zazaki Predicate Clauses
A learner-friendly and linguist-friendly guide to Genç Zazaki copula endings: feminine -a, masculine zero and -o, plural -ê, buffer consonants, and historical n resurfacing.
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Phonetic Inventory of the Genç Zazaki Recordings
This is a phone-level inventory of the currently reviewed Genç recordings in the Genç wordset. It is a descriptive inventory of the dataset, not a claim that every listed phone is contrastive in the language. The inventory excludes recordings whose IPA still needs review in the current working data. Rows missing current orthography or IPA
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Initial Phonological Analysis of Genç Zazaki Recordings
These notes describe recurring phonological and phonetic patterns in the Genç recordings from the May 2026 Zazaca Öğren export. They are not a full grammar of Genç Zazaki, and they should not be read as claims about every speaker from the area. The scope is narrower: document patterns that are well supported in this speaker’s
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Labialized Dental Stops with Bilabial-Trill Release in Central Zazaki
This article documents bilabial-trill release of dental stops in the Central dialect of Zazaki, a Northwest Iranian language of eastern Turkey. The data analyzed here come from recordings of an adult female native speaker from a village in the western part of Genç, a district of Bingöl Province, in the audio corpus published on zazacaogren.com
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